Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or so they say. But how corrupt is Fifa if they can’t even fix their own tournament voting system?

Sepp Blatter’s revelation that the greedy powerhouses at the world football governing body decided to give Russia and the United States the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively before a single vote was cast shows just how rotten Fifa is.

That the 2022 tournament was given to Qatar is both sad and hilariously amusing. That Michel Platini allegedly went against the wishes of Blatter and swapped his vote is in a sick and twisted way funny.

But the fact that Qatar will host a major tournament when in the build-up to the vote it was deemed an impossible place to hold the World Cup due to the heat is enough proof that something was not right inside the organisation.

All the news stories and gossip since 2010 has just confirmed what everyone already knew. That football is better off without Fifa.

It needs to be disbanded, not allowed to continue with one of Blatter’s cronies in charge.

Everyone who is up for election has been involved with Fifa over the past few decades and cannot be trusted. Look how squeaky clean Michel Platini looked a few months ago.

Yet the £1.35 million still cannot be explained and his links to Qatar are not above board.

Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa allegedly dobbed in athletes who had joined pro-democracy protests in the Gulf monarchy in 2011.

They were savagely tortured and the protests drowned in blood with the help of Saudi troops.

Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino is pretty much Platini part two.

And as for the other candidates, I find it hard to believe that between now and February they won’t have stories written about them involved in murky deals.

It is the current state of Fifa, that everyone involved is guilty. And with the way Blatter is behaving, he is just as likely to start telling the media exactly what these people have been up to since they got involved with football.

Blatter letting the cat out of the bag regarding the 2010 vote is a confusing one. Not for a second do I believe he did it for the good of the game or Fifa.

If that was the case, he would have admitted this back in 2010. Or in the build-up to the previous election.

Yes he was just as much to blame for the World Cup going to Russia and Qatar but he could have lied and said he had nothing to do with it and thrown his competitors under the bus. I wouldn’t put it past him to do that.

Instead, Blatter has attempted to throw dirt at Platini after the Frenchman decided to turn on him. Does he not realise by admitting this, he not only proves that Fifa is corrupt but he hands the Swiss and US investigators the smoking gun?

Or did he think he would be commended for his honesty?

That somehow everyone would beg him to continue as president and he can finally get that Nobel peace prize he so desperately craves?

Not a chance. All he has done is dig his own grave along with a host of other Fifa officials.

My favourite part of this however, was Greg Dyke’s response. “Excuse me Fifa, as we spent millions of pounds trying to win the 2018 bid and failed (ignore the allegation that Prince William Windsor and Prime Minister David Cameron may or may not have attempted to trade bids with now banned South Korean official Chung Mong Joon) can we have our money back?”

William Gay, fined by the NFL for standing up against domestic violence

Spare a thought for William Gay. Gay plays for NFL franchise Pittsburgh Steelers and was fined $5,787 last week for wearing purple boots.

The league has a strict code when it comes to the coloured shoes players are allowed to wear.

They must match the teams kit, so Gay has to wear either yellow, black or yellow and black boots. Even the laces must match the team’s colours.

During October, all players wear pink to raise awareness of breast cancer. Some wear pink boots, others have pink gloves or a pink towel. Either way, there is a conscious effort across the league to support a worthy cause.

However, Gay decided he wanted to promote a different charity. He wore purple because it was domestic violence awareness month as well as breast cancer awareness month.

Domestic violence is a very sensitive subject for Gay, who lost his mother when he was seven. She was killed by his stepdad.

Gay has campaigned against domestic violence ever since he stepped into the league. He is even used by NFL to speak up against violence in relationships.

Yet the NFL were not happy with him and punished him. At a time when the NFL is once again in the press for failing to act against Greg Hardy’s comments regarding violence against women, you would have thought they would have let this slide. Not at all.

What makes the organisation such a joke is that they also fined Gay’s teammate DeAngelo Williams for having the phrase “Find the Cure” in his eye black.

Williams lost his mother to breast cancer and was promoting the one thing the NFL wanted him to in the month of October. But because it didn’t fit under their guidelines, Williams was also forced to pay $5,787.

Williams has history with league officials. Just a few weeks prior to his fine, he said he wanted to wear pink after October in memory of his mum. Their response? Do so and you will be fined.